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by Catherine Simpson Olson
GREAT IMPACTS
OF CCIM
CCIMs reveal how the
designation and the network
changed the industry.
“What are the most important contribu-
tions to the practice of commercial real estate that the
CCIM Institute has made since its founding?”
When CCIMs were asked this question, their answers
were remarkably similar, whether they received the
designation in the last 10 years or nearly 40 years ago.
The power of the designation is in the education, the net-
working, and ultimately, the success it brings its members
— whether they have pin number 826 or 10,846.